TY - GEN
T1 - A wideband microstrip balun structure
AU - Wu, Peng
AU - Xue, Quan
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - A wideband microstrip balun structure has been proposed, investigated and demonstrated. In contrast to other wideband balun structures, the balun in this paper does not use tight coupled strip lines, transitions (among CPW, CPS, slotline, and double-sided parallel strips) with ground defects, or phase shifters to realize 180° out-of-phase outputs. The proposed wideband balun is based on the higher order mode microstrip line and the 180° out-of-phase and equal magnitude of the balun outputs can be achieved inherently. The experimental results show that the balun has wideband impedance matching, low loss, and excellent amplitude/phase imbalance performance. © 2014 IEEE.
AB - A wideband microstrip balun structure has been proposed, investigated and demonstrated. In contrast to other wideband balun structures, the balun in this paper does not use tight coupled strip lines, transitions (among CPW, CPS, slotline, and double-sided parallel strips) with ground defects, or phase shifters to realize 180° out-of-phase outputs. The proposed wideband balun is based on the higher order mode microstrip line and the 180° out-of-phase and equal magnitude of the balun outputs can be achieved inherently. The experimental results show that the balun has wideband impedance matching, low loss, and excellent amplitude/phase imbalance performance. © 2014 IEEE.
KW - Balun
KW - higher order mode
KW - microstrip
KW - transition
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U2 - 10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848433
DO - 10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848433
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781479938698
BT - IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, IMS 2014
Y2 - 1 June 2014 through 6 June 2014
ER -